Environmental Sciences

Rutgers researchers co-author first study on biological impacts of abruptly ending efforts to cool Earth’s climate. Facing a climate crisis, we may someday spray sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to form a cloud that cools the Earth, but suddenly stopping the spraying would have a severe global impact on animals and plants, according to […]

As a recent faculty hire in the Department of Environmental Sciences, assistant professor Katherine Dawson’s research primarily focuses on the interactions between organisms and their environment, as well as understanding the molecular and chemical imprints microbes leave behind in the geologic record. Dawson is an environmental microbiologist who works at the interface of geomicrobiology and […]

Explorations, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, features profiles of recent graduates who have launched successful careers and may well be on their way to making headlines for their work. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile […]

The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded a combination of eleven mini-grants and internships to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. This is the 2nd year of the program to support work by Rutgers affiliates in the Raritan Region. Projects and recipients include: […]

According to a study published online in Nature Communications and co-authored by Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events with dramatic global impacts on climate. Damage from volcanic ash at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines after the June 15, 1991, eruption of […]

Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 edition of Explorations, the magazine for alumni and friends of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Since then, the NBC Storm Team visited Cook Campus, the home of the Doppler radar, and interacted with student meteorologists. The next time you visit the George […]

Charles Darwin once wrote that the tips of plant roots are like the brains of plants, searching for nutrient-rich water. In their quest, some tree roots probe hundreds of feet deep and many send roots through cracks in rocks. The depth of plant roots play a key role in the plants’ adaptation to climate […]

On September 17, NBC’s StormTracker 4 team visited Cook Campus, the site of the Doppler radar tower with its 1,000,000 watts of cutting-edge technology. IT’S GOT THE POWER! StormTracker 4 is powered by one million watts of cutting-edge technology. It can generate 1,000 pulses within the blink of an eye. And it has a range […]

Faculty, students and alumni of the Rutgers Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science (GPAS) marked the 10th anniversary of the program’s establishment with an afternoon symposium held during the Spring semester at the Cook Student Center. The event featured a keynote address by Arlene Fiore, professor and accomplished atmospheric chemist from Columbia University, as well as […]

Where are you when funnel clouds appear? Most people head inside and to the basement. Not Steve Decker’s fearless and inquisitive storm-chasing meteorological students! Steve Decker, associate teaching professor in the Meteorology Undergraduate Program in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led his students on a two-week field trip to the Midwest as part of the […]